A Mid-century Appraisal: EDUCATION

Education is widely advertised as the force which will save the 20th
Century from its own hatreds, confusions and follies. In liberal
political theory, education is what gives the common man the ever
increasing wisdom to govern his society. Again & again, during the
M.I.T. convocation, speakers called on education to run major errands
for humanity; philosophers wanted it to teach the proper attitude
toward mass production, educators wanted it to do a better job of
education.

Purchased Flowers. Significantly, M.I.T.'s panel on this subject was
called "Specialization in 20th Century Education." So complex has 20th
Century technology grown that it requires...